Cobalt Chapel - Variants
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23-Klove 2 CDA
Cecilia Fage: Vocals and choral arrangements
Jarrod Gosling: Organs, Mellotron, tone generator, RMI piano, accordion, tape loops, effects, drums and percussion
Nick Gosling: Guitar on ‘Who Are The Strange’
“Variants is the companion piece to the debut album from Cobalt Chapel (released in 2017). Cobalt Chapel is the psychedelic folk-rock pairing of Cecilia Fage (Matt Berry & The Maypoles) and Jarrod Gosling (I Monster, Regal Worm).
Variants takes the songs from the bands debut and re-imagines them using a vast array of effects, cassette loops, found sounds and field recordings, spitting the tracks out in a very different format to the originals. What this does is give the release a real consistency, and a more stripped back, sparse feel to the album, which is quite gothic at times.
My original review described Cobalt Chapel’s debut as being “perfectly suited to the Autumn and Winter seasons” and this is even more so for Variants, which works well as an album in its own right, whether you are aware of the original album or not. As the temperature drops, and as the snow starts to fall, Variants could well be the perfect soundtrack to your winter.”-Mr Kinski’s Music Shack
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